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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON CERN:

Be it'known that I, HENRY HISE, of the city of Ottawa, county of La Salle, in the State o f Illinois, `l1ave l invented a new and improved Check Box for Railroad or other Conductors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon, in Which like parts are indicated by like letters in the several figures.

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing abox (or'boxea) in which ticketsyare deposited, that a conductor will not be able to appropriate to himself Way fares, without a certainty of detection, thus being in other words a tell-tale invention;

To enable others skilled in theart to make and and operation. In the drawings- Figure l represents a central longitudinal section of my ticketrbox.

Figure 2, a tp .View of same. i

Figure 3, a section of my deposit box.

Figure 4, a plan of the ticket used.

It seems to be a patent fact, that en railroads, it is often the ease that way far conductors, as a kind of perquisi'tef although it is not intended they should do so.

The object of my invention is to prevent such appropriation of way fares. To this end, before a train starts, the ticket clerk puts into the hands of a conductor, a box, A, containing a lot of tickets, B. This box has a lid, O, with openings a b and c in it, and only partially covering the top of box A, and about half of` the tickets B. This lid is ,turned down, having a kind of lip, cl, which takes under another lip, e, on the top of partitions 7.1. At the other end it has a projectien,f, lturning down over the end a of box A. This box, A, has a circular projection, g, say three-fourths of a circle. The partfof the lid C, which turns down over theend a of A', has also -a curved projection, z, say oneffourth of a circle, completing that of g. Part off extends below this, as seen at f. The recess made'by g and h is intended to be filled `with some kind of sealing Wax, to be appropriately stamped for safety,from removal or violation, without detection. This will bes-een illustrated by the deposit box, iig. 3, the lid ,of which is secured in a similar manner. a removable lid. 'This there ism-obstacle to removing at any time a ticket and when removed, half of the ticket can be torn oil" and given to a pas amount of fare, as also marking on the same the' l use my invention, I will proceed to'describe its construction es are appropriated by 7 the ticket must be pushed aside by the conductorA into the chamber, D, to facilitate which, as also assist in tearing the ticket into two parts, the slot is made.- Slots jj', (through which partition guides pass,`) also assist in holding the ticket in place, prevent its entire abstraction, and weaken it for tearing. .The tickets 'should be regularly numbered, l, 2, 3,14, &c. It will be -seen that the conductor must push the half ticket he retains out of the Way in the direction of arrow z, before he can fill up the next one under it. He cannot easily abstract it. Beside this b ox, I :use an accessory one, E, having adrop hole, l, in the top or side. This box is intended to be hung at some convenient place in the car, say near the door, and into which it-is intended `say passengers shall drop their-ticketsv before leaving, or as they leave the car, or the 'conductor may take it gironi-id, when collecting tickets, and let the way passengers ,drop-their tickets into it. This, however, may 4not be desirable. On the contrary, 'when leftat thedoor, he will not knew who deposit their tickets and who do not. This ignorance is the best guard from his abstracting any of the duplicates from box A, even ii'. 'it be practicable. At the end of the route, the two sealed boxes, A and E, are handed to the ticket agent, who breaks the seals and compares the contents of each. i If there be a half ticket in E which is not 4in chamber D, the inference (or certainty) is, the conductor 'hasappropriate'd that way fare.' In the chamber, F, of box A, there is a spring, m, extending nearly its whole length, and passing between the two partitions, k, which pass between the lateral slots jy" of ticket B. This spring supports a plate or platform,`N, upon which rest the tiel-iets, and this spring keeps them pressed up against the lid C of the box A. The box performs a very important part in the invention or proposed safety guard, as well as in the detection of any. fraud. Besides insuring a return of the half tickets lcftin apartment D of box A,'it also prevents marking the fare ou tickets loiiver than the iixed rates, for those in each box should correspond, and the passenger who drops his ticket into box E een see if Ythe conductor has marked on it the price or fare paidhim. There should-be one of these boxes at cach ear door. AAs to box E zo-operating with box y A. es a. detective, any suitable attachment may be made arolind drop hole to prevent any abstraction of the passengers tickets I have indicated an arrangement-e box with four sides, having :L spring :it the bottom,`(see red ink lines.)

Hoving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofy the.

United States, is v 1. The box A, provided with the apartment F, spring m, lid C, and chamber D, arranged and combined 21nd operating in the manner shown and described and for the purpose set fol-th.-

i 2. The-secondary box E, when used in connection with box A, and constructed of the two parts as described, box proper and lid, the latter provided with a slot l, and lip f', as shown and described and for the purpose set forth..

3. The tickets B, having the slots z'j and j', for the purpose set forth.,

4. The combination of tickets B'with box A, constructed and erranged as described.

.5. As n complete method of detection, or as e safety guard, I ciaimthe combination of box A, tickets B, and deposit boxl E, constructed, arranged, and oper-attingsubstantialiy in the manner, described, find for the purpose set forth. l 4

^ v HENRY HISE. Witnesses: H. FREDENBYK, GEORGE AVERY. 

